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When I contacted Clay Harrison, Readers' Choice winner of the 2013 Daily Press poetry contest, to chat with him about his work, he told me he'd been in his yard, tending his garden. It didn't take more than a few minutes of conversation for me to understand that tending others is what Harrison does, not only with his works, but with his words. It started with the death of a neighbor's 2-year-old daughter when Harrison was in high school. To help the family through its grief, he wrote "Little Lorraine" and had the poem printed on funeral cards. In the 55 years since, Harrison has written poems for his neighbors and members of his church to pay tribute to and...

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